Rapa Nui Names

Polyynesia

Thirth Heyerdahl has proven that the colonisation from South America would have been possible by sailing on a Passat winch but there is not enough proof to be sure if this was the case or not. The early years of Easter has two major tradition. First, the tale of a dispute between the "long ears" (Hanau Epe) and the "short ears" (Hanau Momoko), apparently dispersed and not living in separated groups, begins with seven children of one and the same familiy being murdered by a Ko Ita for Cannibalism.

They were hiding in Poike, where they made a trench and planned to send their foes into the trench and cremation them, but the spouse of one of them gave them away and they were trapped in their own way. The two groups, which some consider to be distinct breeds, may have been actually divided only by differences in class: the term handau actually means "to be born" and Father S. Englert defined exp as "fat" and mother-of-pe as "thin", which may have mean that the two groups merely constituted an economical antagonism.

Not a general Rapa Nui term, Poike appears in a legend in which two Tongan brethren devastated the mythic Yayake Isle ( "where Poike was") in vengeance for the death of two Tongan mothers. A man from the only one who survived the Long Ears was one of the first to go aboard Holland vessels, but was subsequently murdered the next morning when gunshots were shot into the crowd and described how the Dutches gave him fluids and nourishment, but he did not ate and drank.

It was''discovered'' in 1722 by the Dutchman Jacob Roggeveen, who first saw it on Easter Sunday. A number of persons were murdered by Flemish cannons within a few seconds of land. The more solemn arrivals of the Spaniards in 1770 put a claim on the Isle for Spain, but when Cook left it in 1774, the crucifixes they had built were gone.

Indigenous people who had been proposed for trading and relationships were tranquil. The Pacific slavery began in 1804 to the blackbird, Rapa Nui, which reached its peak in 1862, when a high level of injuries, fatalities and losses was recorded on the Isle. Imported illnesses and undernourishment led to many fatalities and until 1872 there were only 111 Rapa Nui on the Isle.

In 1914, the uprising initiated by the prophesy and director Maria Angata Veri Tahi a Pengo Hare Kohou mainly involved stealing businesses to enhance the extreme bad living conditions of the Rapa Nui people. It is now part of Chile, as are the neighboring Sala y Gomez and the archipelago of Juan Fernandez, San Felix and San Ambrosio, which lie between Easter and South America.

The name of this compilation was put together by Kate Monk and is ©1997, Kate Monk.